benmathes

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by benmathes 10y ago
The article quotes CB Insights. CB Insights covers all dealflow (that they know of), not just AngelList.
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by benmathes 11y ago
huh, couldn't see it. sorry.
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by benmathes 11y ago
Would love to upload/import KML, as I have a bunch of detailed climbing/hiking maps in google that I don't have time to recreate.
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by benmathes 11y ago
It does seem attractive, all the empty land out there. But the point of cities is to be near lots of other people all the time. There's a tipping point of human flourishing from the intermingling. Great cities outlasted empires. Intera
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by benmathes 11y ago
With some pretty strong selection bias which will likely make generalizations difficult.
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by benmathes 11y ago
Found a mistake in the docs: http://tensorflow.org/get_started/basic_usage.md In the "Variables" example, looks like a variable name got changed but not updated everywhere: # at the start: var = tf.
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Email Limits What You Can Say(medium.com)
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by benmathes 11y ago
From a tech standpoint, yes. There are some pretty powerful interests that don't want to see the open web on mobile. Google and Apple get handsome cuts of all the revenue on their semi-closed platforms. Consumer demand may shift that
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by benmathes 11y ago
Don't be fooled by randomness and survivorship bias. Those aren't the same funds each year. Thousands of funds trying to beat the market at a seemingly-random game? A small few will get lucky.
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by benmathes 11y ago
There's a government survey that gets at this right here: http://www.integration.samhsa.gov/images/res/PHQ%20-%20Quest... (a little google goes a long way)
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by benmathes 11y ago
Big platforms tend to be different things to different people. Might help to have a different "what is docker?" page for the various roles you encounter. For CIOs: click here For developers: click here For sysadmins/d
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by benmathes 11y ago
Tweets are threaded now. Conversations work, though can break down if people compose new tweets with an @mention instead of the reply button. Can break down with sub-conversation trees a little, but that's hardly only twitter's pr
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by benmathes 11y ago
He's termed out in 2016. May try to run for state office again like he did in 2014. http://www.sfbarf.org/front.html (could really use a site update, but they're doing the right work)
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by benmathes 11y ago
yeah... if I could vote for a candidate that would do anything _remotely_ like this, I would. But the primary filtering is how much money the candidate can raise. The candidates might not be corrupt, but the electoral system is corrupted.
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by benmathes 11y ago
We'll probably have to go through a bunch of pain for this new working class until it gets so bad that the "union for mobile" is figured out and used to counterbalance the centralized power of the on-demand labor companies.
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by benmathes 11y ago
paid advertising turns into far better organic growth by a very large margin.
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by benmathes 12y ago
Needs more angellist API integration. Who do I know at the companies? Who are their current investors? Prominent advisors? etc. etc.
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by benmathes 12y ago
FYI: the visualization doesn't load if you're using adblock or uBlock.
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by benmathes 12y ago
It should come as no surprise that Mr. Park is on board; He built two public healthcare IT companies (ATHN, CSLT). He can definitely recruit good tech talent. The question is: Can he convince others in government that, as another post on th
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by benmathes 12y ago
aristocracy != monarchy.
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by benmathes 12y ago
A) I use $modern_editor_b because emacs/vim doesn't have this one feature. B) emacs/vim does have that feature! just download this package manager and then use the package manager to install this addon if you're using py
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by benmathes 12y ago
though, it seems, that employee was incorreclty shitting all over reddit. The situation appears far grayer than "CEO shits on employee"
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by benmathes 12y ago
Yes, similar to shelter, food, and energy in that they are fundamental infrastructure. I'm sorry I wasn't more clear. You are right: the analogy breaks down on the level of mechanism of preservation. I attempted to be more general
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by benmathes 12y ago
Short Answer: Communications industries are different, and too important. The information they carry is, like journalism, a 4th estate to democracy. An econ101 approach to that industry breeds consolidated information empires that influence
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by benmathes 12y ago
At least constitutionally, the 4th amendment (unlawful search) and "innocent until proven guilty" would mean blocking if _known_ illegal traffic. Yes, granted, those rights are often infringed upon, especially in tech.
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by benmathes 12y ago
You're right that it's partially true. Why the idealistic spin from @sama? Consider the incentives. One of YC's macro strengths is a silicon valley onramp.
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by benmathes 12y ago
Easier to just recognize the questions you want to answer as opposed to having to come up with them yourself?
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by benmathes 12y ago
Yeah, I don't know the right breakdown. I just know that your run-of-the-mill founding teams (not founders, the teams) are relatively shafted.
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by benmathes 12y ago
"But most of the value in this company came from two things: Richard Garfield creating Magic: The Gathering, and the employees. Not investors. It’s only appropriate that the distribution from the sale reflects that." Hear hear. In
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by benmathes 12y ago
likely some kind of cryptocurrency. Given YC's involvement in Stripe, nonzero chance it will be done with Stellar.

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